Isaiah 38:14

Isaiah 38:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.
• New International Version (NIV)I cried like a swift or thrush, I moaned like a mourning dove. My eyes grew weak as I looked to the heavens. I am being threatened; Lord, come to my aid!”
• English Standard Version (ESV)Like a swallow or a crane I chirp; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my pledge of safety!
• New King James Version (NKJV)Like a crane or a swallow, so I chattered; I mourned like a dove; My eyes fail from looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; Undertake for me!

Context of Isaiah 38:14

12My life was over. You rolled it up like a shepherd’s tent. You rolled up my life like a weaver. You cut me off from the loom. You ended my life in one day. 13I cried out until morning as if a lion had crushed all my bones. You ended my life in one day. I chirped like swallows and cranes. I cooed like doves. My eyes were tired from looking up to heaven. I’ve suffered miserably, O Lord! Please help me! 15What can I say now that he has spoken to me? He has done this. I will be careful the rest of my life because of my bitter experience. 16Lord, people live in spite of such things, and I have the will to live in spite of them. You give me health and keep me alive.

Isaiah 38:14 word by word

כְּס֤וּס עָגוּר֙ כֵּ֣ן אֲצַפְצֵ֔ף אֶהְגֶּ֖ה כַּיּוֹנָ֑ה דַּלּ֤וּ עֵינַי֙ לַמָּר֔וֹם אֲדֹנָ֖י עָֽשְׁקָה־לִּ֥י עָרְבֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Like a craneסוּסsûs sûs · swallowH5483
• a swallowעָגוּר‛âgûr · craneH5693
• so did I chatterצָפַףtsâphaph · to whisperH6850
• I did mournהָגָהhâgâh · to mutterH1897
• as a doveיוֹנָהyônâh · doveH3123
• mine eyesעַ֫יִן‛ayin · eyeH5869
• failדָּלַלdâlal · to languishH1809
• upwardמָרוֹםmârôm · heightH4791
• O Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• I am oppressedעׇשְׁקָה‛oshqâh · oppressionH6234
• undertakeעָרַב‛ârab · to pledgeH6148

Cross-references for Isaiah 38:14

• Job 30:29I’m a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.
• Psalms 102:4My heart is beaten down and withered like grass because I have forgotten about eating.
• Isaiah 59:11We all growl like bears. We coo like doves. We hope for justice, but there is none. We hope for salvation, but it’s far from us.
• Ezekiel 7:16Those who survive will escape to the mountains. They will moan like doves in the valleys. They will moan because of their sins.
• Nahum 2:7The Lord has determined: “It will be stripped. It will be carried away. Its young women will be mourning like doves as they beat their breasts.”
• Psalms 69:3I am exhausted from crying for help. My throat is hoarse. My eyes are strained ⌞from⌟ looking for my God.
• Psalms 119:82My eyes have become strained from looking for your promise. I ask, “When will you comfort me?”
• Psalms 123:1I look up to you, to the one who sits enthroned in heaven.
• Lamentations 4:17“We are still straining our eyes, trying in vain to find help. We waited and waited for a nation that didn’t save us.
• Psalms 119:122Guarantee my well-being. Do not let arrogant people oppress me.
• Psalms 143:7Answer me quickly, O Lord. My spirit is worn out. Do not hide your face from me, or I will be like those who go into the pit.

Commentaries on Isaiah 38:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14Like - a swallow "Like the swallow" - כסיס kesis ; so read two MSS., Theodot., and Hieron. Mine eyes fail - For דלו dallu the Septuagint read כלו calu, . Compare Psalm 69:4; Psalm 119:82, Psalm 119:123; Lamentations 2:11; Lamentations 4:17, in the Hebrew and in the Septuagint. O Lord "O Lord" - For יהוה Jehovah, thirty MSS. and eight editions read אדני Adonai . Undertake for me "Contend for me" - עשקה ashekah, with ש shin, Jarchi: this sense of the word…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 9-22Verses 9-22 We have here Hezekiah's thanksgiving. It is well for us to remember the mercies we receive in sickness. Hezekiah records the condition he was in. He dwells upon this; I shall no more see the Lord. A good man wishes not to live for any other end than that he may serve God, and have communion with him. Our present residence is like that of a shepherd in his hut, a poor, mean, and cold lodging, and with a trust committed to our charge, as the…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-20Hezekiah’s poem includes both lament (Isaiah 38:9–14) and praise (38:15–20). The praise remains restrained until the final verse.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 9-209-20. The prayer and thanksgiving song of Hezekiah is only given here, not in the parallel passages of Second Kings and Second Chronicles. Is 38:9 is the heading or inscription.Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 38:14

• Afflictions and Adversities
• Crane
• Hezekiah
• Murmuring
• Oppression
• Psalms
• Swallow

In the dictionaries

• Celebrate
• Crane
• Hezekiah
• Poetry
• Reckon
• Swallow
• Undertake
• Chatter
• Chronicles, Books of
• Dove

Commentaries on Isaiah 38

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings